Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
My client-side app is built using .NET 3.5, in fact, I want to require that the user has it installed. Before I even start the app, I want to make sure that the framework is present on the box.
I tried to use the
<requiredRuntime version="v3.5..."/>
but it seems that the underlying code can’t really tell between .net 2 and .net 3.5 (which, i know, it’s the same thing).
So how do I check for presence of the .NET 3.5 framework, preferably in a declarative manner?
If you are deploying your application through an MSI generated with a Setup and Deployment project you could enforce a .NET Framework Launch Condition. If it is a simple copy of the executable you could probably probe for the presence of
System.Coreassembly with reflection as this assembly is specific to .NET 3.5 but if the user has no CLR 2.0 installed this will fail.